This will be like telling someone to sell his gold to buy silver. Do you not know that people will have preferences? As for me I prefer to have bitcoin instead of monero or litecoin but I do not like the mempool to be congested. But bitcoin mempool is still very not congested at all. The congestion lasted not more than an hour and got back to normal. Bitcoin transaction fee is still very cheap as of now.

Nothing wrong with using BTC if you are okay with fees spiking sometimes.
If a person is not - he will find alternatives. That's all.

Nothing! As a common user, we will keep on highlighting these high transaction fees and no one would care. If anyone would have cared about it, we would have found a solution by now.

The only solution here is to move to LN. But that is an offchain solution. I hope Bitcoin devs sleep well while we continue to face issues. This is ridiculous!

These were able to pay high fees because their pump-and-dump markets had high profits. The suckers have mostly left those markets. But Runes moved from Ordinals to OP_RETURN TXOs a few months ago. They're occupying about 60% of each block, as thousands of small transactions, not large inscriptions. They're the reason that rates are 2-4S/vb instead of 1S/vb. Counting Ordinals isn't useful for monitoring these transactions. The fee surge mentioned in the top post lasted about 10 blocks, not a doom and gloom event

A quick look at one of the blocks shows a lot of RBF fee-boosting. We can hope that the Rune OP_RETURN transactions were automatically paying RBF fees of 400-700S/vb in these blocks, wiping out their meager pump-and-dump profits

Thanks for sharing the real reason of the spike in fee, I also wonder why would someone completely blinded by such tokens that have no actual use case maybe some whale might be backing it up and trying to create a fake pool to rug pull as most of these token follow this path but don't know much about this one.

BTW it's a reminder for those who want to sell their BTC that they should withdraw them when they find the fee lowest from their non-custodial wallets otherwise when the time will come they might find the tx fee high as it is now.

I was usually checking the Mempool when i had to make any bitcoin transcations and the last time I checked, it was something in between 3 to 5 sat/vbyte a fews days back. After reading the OP post, i rushed to the mempool site to see the current situation and was calmed to see that the transaction fee is still under control. Maybe there could be such a high spike for little time but everything seems to be normal at the moment.

High Fees were to be expected.  When the Bitcoin price has a significant upwards movement, it takes time before people find out about it and decide what to do.  The craze of Bitcoin Transactions typically starts hours or days after the Price movement.  If the Price will move similar to last cycles, expect even higher Fees.

It happened to me before that I had to urgently make a Transaction and while I theoretically put a Fee that would put me on top of the Priority list in the Mempool, others were racing and I had to bump my Transaction Fee many times before it finally got included in a Block.  This is what I imagine happens very often and the reason Fees become so high during Bull Runs.

I wish things were different but this is the unfortunate side of Bitcoin cycles.  And it does not hurt much if you simply hold on to your Bitcoins only to sell them later since the Profit you will make will likely be worth the Fee, but if you have to make other Transactions then you are kind of screwed.  So what you can do is either just pay the Fee once as soon as you want to sell or try moving to Lightning.

So assume for a minute that the entire world decides to switch to bitcoin. Everyone dumps their fiat, overnight.

I did the math a while ago. With a world population of 8 billion, and current chain capacity at 7 tx per second, that means each person on the planet would get to do an L1 tx every 36 years.

It's only too obvious, this is not workable. We need to scale some more. Now, I don't know what the solution is: Llightning, Liquid, side chains, fedimint, or (shivers) btc banks? Or something we haven't figured out yet?

I'm pretty sure a custodial LN wallet, like Chico in El Salvador will be part of the solution. Maybe a form of local bank acting as a fedimint?

And I'm pretty sure shitcoinery like runes, BRC-20, and ordinals, those are part of the problem.

The beauty of the space is that everybody can do whatever they want.
And people always go after the risk.
Be it memes or runes  Won't change in the future. Even if it makes BTC's fees clumsy.